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Financial Troubles in Asia
Fail to Deter U.S. Investment

Wayne Arnold Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Sept. 4, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

Economists may be fearful and fund managers dashing for the exits. But to the U.S. corporate behemoths that sold $2.9 billion in high-tech equipment to Southeast Asia last year, the region's financial turmoil is merely new terrain in their battle for market share.